Time for a 1976 Tampa-St Petersburg promotional film! Grab the popcorn!
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Here’s a postcard from the collection of what is still known as Port Tampa City. All of this developed because of the wealth of Henry B. Plant. He named the area Port Tampa City. The rail lines are also Plants[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley, page 171.
Here, being constructed, is a dream of promoter Dave Davis. Davis Island in Tampa became home to some of the best of homes in the area. It started during the Florida Boom in the 1920s and sank during the crash.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: Gasparilla Parade, Tampa.
The trolley rolls along in Ybor City around 1910. This photo is from ‘Ybor City: The Making of a Landmark Town’ by Frank Trebin Lastra. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below.
Found this ad for the Elise Frank School of Art in a 1949 copy of Literary Florida.
Here’s a cigar factory in Ybor City known for making a well-known cigar at the time, the Julia Marlowe. The two cars are Westcott cars. This photo is from ‘Yesterday in Florida Annual Edition: Volume 2, Issues 9-14’. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can read about Fred Karl at the Tampa Tribune site by clicking here.
Swampy’s Postcard Saturday: Ballast Point, Tampa, 1906.
This postcard postmarked October 1906 shows again one of the magnificent structures that used to grace our great state. Unfortunately this structure is long gone from Ballast Point. In it’s place is a simple long pier and bait shop. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Port Tampa City – A History of Change’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Swampy Live: Sulpher Springs
At one time Sulphur Springs, now engulfed by the City of Tampa, was an individual community in the early years of the 20th century. Now the community is mostly residential. Though, there are still remnants of, what was a bustling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…